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Manage WAN Costs
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Manage skyrocketing WAN costs by consolidating key WAN optimization technologies in a single appliance.
The Challenge: More for Less
The enterprise WAN has become a critical part of IT infrastructure—and has consumed a significant amount of its budget. Without an executable containment strategy, WAN costs can spiral out of control.
Increasing Bandwidth Demand
Before CAD files and iTunes® traversed the WAN, 64 KBPS was a lot of bandwidth. Today graphic-heavy Web front ends, VoIP convergence and XML show what bandwidth hogging really means—and how bandwidth costs can skyrocket. Gartner® predicts "[bandwidth] growth rates close to 60 percent per year...for all firms."*
DDoS, Worm and Virus Disruption
Network disruption can bring down enterprise applications and productivity, negatively affecting the bottom line. When worms and viruses propagate the network, IT staff gets thrown into firefighting mode—seeking out and containing infected PCs before they bring down the network.
MPLS: New Service, Costs and Management
New MPLS services simplify by removing all these Permanent Virtual Circuits (PVCs) and providing IP routing via IP VPNs—and that's a good thing. But sorting all applications into different service classes—and tracking availability and troubleshooting issues without point-to-point PVCs—tacks on additional costs and management issues.
More Issues, Tools and Costs
Point products are popping up to deal with the growing complexity, increased bandwidth demand and WAN applications delivery. A probe for monitoring. QoS to manage bandwidth allocation. Compression and acceleration devices to enlarge capacity and speed performance. Deciding which or what to use poses a burden on IT staff and budget.
The Packeteer Solution: Comprehensive Management
Packeteer delivers a comprehensive set of technologies that helps you effectively manage WAN costs and deliver the expected performance of your critical applications across the network.
Track and Reclaim Bandwidth Costs
Packeteer tracks network application use on the network, making it easy to contain recreational traffic and save big. Reclaim as much as 50 percent of bandwidth—and associated costs—stolen by nonessential applications!
Ensure Performance of Critical Applications
Packeteer's application-intelligent QoS mechanisms make prioritizing simple. Allocate required bandwidth per session for sensitive real-time applications like ERP queries, transaction processing and VoIP—without wasting resources.
Protect Availability
Suppress Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), virus and worm propagation. Weed out security threats through Packeteer's Distributed Threat Suppression. Identify and isolate infected hosts, mitigating network impact. Our Flow Detail Records provide a detailed repository for forensic and compliance purposes.
Quickly Isolate Problems
Keep your networking staff productive. Track connection states—including per flow records—to get the next level of troubleshooting with diagnostics—for every application at every connection. Network or server? What application is spiking? Which users? How many SAP connections refused? You need to know the facts.
Increase WAN Capacity, Not Bandwidth
Advanced compression algorithms provide low-latency, high-impact compression to increase WAN capacity and create room for VoIP implementations. No bandwidth upgrades required!
Accelerate Applications
Packeteer's TCP and application-specific acceleration techniques overcome protocol design issues that slow performance and choke connections.
Manage MPLS Cost Structures
Packeteer helps you intelligently plan and track capacity needs. Follow per application use and response times to accurately size each gold, silver and bronze class—and compare how different applications perform in different service classes. Shift applications between classes and enjoy considerable costs savings.
Consolidate for More Efficiency
A suite of tools, Packeteer consolidates key WAN optimization technologies in a single appliance. Separately, each best of breed technology competes with a single purpose device. Together, the total exceeds the sum of their parts. Enjoy network monitoring far beyond a probe, highly differentiated QoS capabilities as well as sophisticated compression and acceleration.
* Gartner®, 2004, SPA-21-9313
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